Simple and Elegant
One of my addictions - counted cross stitch
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My days would not be complete without a little creativity!
About Me
- Monica
- I am an accountant by day and crafter by night. I enjoy knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, sewing, quilting, cooking, reading, jewelry making, photography, opera and painting. I have a sophmore and junior in college. I started taking classes towards my MBA and hope to graduate in August of 2012.
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My Favorite Blogs
Me in Greece in 1981
My Book List 2012
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Secret Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly
My Book List 2011
- That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo
- To Siberia - Per Petterson
- Rafa - Rafael Nadal
- Every Last One - Anna Quindlen
- Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
- Boomerang - Michael Lewis
- One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
- Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Onward - Howard Schultz
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Big Short - Michael Lewis
- A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
My Book List-2010
- Open - Andre Agassi
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Germinal - Zola
- Marie Antoinette - Antonia Fraser
- Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Family Ties - Danielle Steel
- The Color of Water - James McBride
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Angel's Game - Carlos Luis Zafon
- The Mysterious Island-Jules Verne
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
- Around the World in Eighty Days-Jules Verne
Operas
- Nabucco - 11/12/11
- The Barber of Seville - 10/1/11
- The Queen of Spades - 3/26/11
- Rigoletto - 1/21/11
- Don Carlo - 12/18/10
- Don Pasquale - 11/6/10
- Boris Gudunov - 10/23/10
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann - 10/2/10
- LuLu - 5/15/2010
- La Traviata - 4/17/2010
- Attila - 3/6/2010
- Stiffelio - 1/30/2010
- Der Rosenkavalier - 1/9/2010
- From the House of the Dead - 12/5/2009
- Turandot - 11/7/2009
- Aida - 10/24/2009
- Tosca - 10/10/2009
- Il Troatore - 5/2/2009
- L'Elisir D'Amore - 4/4/2009
- Rusalka - 3/14/2009
- La Boheme - 1/3/2009
- Tristan und Isolde - 12/6/2008
- La Traviata - 11/15/2008
- Madama Butterfly - 11/1/2008
- Salome - 10/4/2008
- Ernani - 3/29/1008
- Macbeth - 1/12/2008
- Iphigenie en Tauride - 12/1/2007
- Le Nozze di Figaro - 10/6/2007
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia - 3/24/2007
- Idomeneo - 12/2/2006
- Rigoletto - 10/28/2006
- Die Zauberfloete - 10/7/2006
- Mazeppa - 3/18/1006
- Romeo et Juliette - 3/4/2006
- Cytano de Bergerac - 2/4/2006
- Carmen - 12/10/2005
- Cosi Fan Tutte - 10/29/2005
- Ariadne auf Naxos - 9/24/2005
- Damon et Dalila - 3/5/2005
- Tosca - 4/9/2005
- Turandot - 1/29/2005
- La Boheme - 11/20/2004
- Aida - 11/6/2004
- Carmen - 10/16/2004
- Madama Butterfly - 9/25/2004